April 15, 2013

Ristar


Hey now! That was actually kind of fun. Ristar is a quick little fourteen-level platformer made by the same team that made the early Sonic games - hence its inclusion in the Sonic Mega Collection - but thankfully it plays nothing like those. Ristar is a star-dude with stretchy arms; these stretchy arms inform just about every aspect of gameplay, allowing you to move, to attack, and to collect items. Check out some YouTube clips for a better idea. It was a nice conclusion to a compilation disc which had grown stale quickly, and more than that it was just a nice 16-bit game form the '90s. Bright colors, great music, just an all around fun and kind of challenging experience. You could do a lot worse on the Sega Genesis.

No comments:

Post a Comment